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WE understand that at last nights Clarkston Community Council public meeting guests and Community Councillors alike were shocked by the conduct of Provost Alistair Carmichael (SNP)

Guests included a Muirend Doctor who is due to move to the new Health Centre when built in Williamwood and two young medical students who were also in attendance as part of their training to observe communities in action.

The Chair of the Community Council was asking Cllr Carmichael for clarification as to why at the last East Renfrewshire Council meeting in Chambers at Eastwood Park he claimed to have no knowledge that a larger venue had been requested for the public to observe, and that all such requests required to go through him.

COMMONWEALTH Games volunteers, workers and visitors could be living in the grounds of the GHA rugby club for three weeks this summer if a planning application goes through.

An application has been submitted to East Renfrewshire Council to erect a camp site on two of the club’s three pitches where users would camp in their own tents or tents set-up by Campingninja, an organisation which administered sites during the London Olympics

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The Braidholm based rugby club, GHA, previously clashed with the surrounding community over plans to build a phone mast on the club’s grounds and to develop eight five-a-side and seven-a-side football pitches on their rugby grounds.

Due to the number of objections received by the council the current application will require to go before the Planning Applications Committee.

IS ERC - a council without credibility, transparency or accountability?

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By Newsline

11th December 2013

PERMISSION was granted for the building of houses on the former Volvo site on Kelburn St, Barrhead on the 27th November 2013.

Have East Renfrewshire Council in granting this permission performed a ‘U’ turn in respect of their policy of requiring builders to provide either 25% of the development as affordable housing and or pay for planning gain / developer contributions?

At the recent planning applications committee (PAC) meeting councillors heard that these houses which had initially been indicated would number between 80 and 108, will now consist of only 58 with 54 of them being detached and they will be 3, 4 and 5 bedrooms, together with 4 semi detached, yet the area that has now been approved for development has increased by 0.2 hectares from a previous application a number of years ago.